Engaging patients in their care requires more than creating a portal or social media posts. Join us for this Webinar about care collaboration and leveraging information technology to improve the provider-patient connection.  Our speaker, Dr. Danny Sands is passionate about healthcare transformation, non-visit based care, collaboration in healthcare, and participatory medicine. He is a founder and co-chair of the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine. He is also the co-author, with e-Patient Dave deBronkart, of Let Patients Help.

Dr. Sands has been CMIO at Cisco and CMO for Zix Corporation, a leader in secure e-mail and e-prescribing. Prior to that he spent 13 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he developed and implemented numerous systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement.

Dr. Sands currently holds an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School and maintains a primary care practice in which he makes extensive use of health IT (much of which he helped to introduce during his tenure at Beth Israel Deaconess). He also serves as Chief Medical Officer to Conversa Health and Kinergy Health.

He has earned degrees from Brown University, Ohio State University, Harvard School of Public Health, and trained at Boston City Hospital and Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Sands has received many health IT awards and has been elected to fellowship in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics. In 2009 he was recognized by HealthLeaders Magazine as one of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better.” Dr. Sands is a popular speaker and consultant, who blogs at DrDannySands.com and is active on Twitter as @DrDannySands

This Webinar is a non-commercial presentation sponsored by ZurickDavis

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Posted on Jun 10, 2015